Baby shower Friday

It turns out that my post on Friday was a bit premature. My co-workers threw a surprise baby shower for Steve and I Friday afternoon! I had no idea they had planned this. I have pictures that I’ll post, too. It was really great. I haven’t had a surprise party since my ninth birthday – so this was awesome. Maria and Sherry put together the event, but I think everyone was involved somehow. I must be pretty easy to fool because they couldn’t believe that I had no idea what was up.

We played some fun games…far more fun than you’d think. I think if you throw a baby shower, the games are definitely important. You just have to make sure they can be played by everyone. These games were hilarious. The first game involved an ice cube with a miniature baby frozen inside (sounds creepy, I know) but the ice cube is placed in a cup of water and the first person whose baby comes out of the ice cube says “My water broke!” and he or she gets a prize.

Another one was a Scattergories type game where everyone (but Steve and I) made names out of each of the letters of our first and last names (ex: for Sarah = Sally, Alison, Rachel, Abby, Hannah).

Then we played a game where they’d put things that smelled in diapers and we had to guess the small for each diaper – which was a little difficult since diapers have a small too. It was pretty funny to watch everyone sniff diapers and pass them around. Then they passed around unlabeled baby food and we had to guess what kind of baby food it was. I wasn’t very good at either of these games.

We were also given some really wonderful gifts. I’ve got a kind of classic Winnie the Pooh theme going with a lot of the baby’s things and most of the gifts reflected that. Very nice. I feel a little more prepared than I did before. I was just so blown away that they threw this party for me.

THANK YOU…